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  Whitey Bulger's Brutal Life...and Death

  May 26 at 4 a.m.

  Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss By Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge 352 pp. William Morrow $28.99 Late in the evening on May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced to the world that terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden had been...

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  Comedy Writer Alan Zweibel Curates Memoirs With Help From Funny Friends He’s Made Funnier

  May 15 at 7:08 a.m.

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  Beethoven to Beyoncé: Switched on Pop Authors and Podcast Hosts Reveal the Powers of Popular Music

  May 15 at 4:30 a.m.

  Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters By Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding 224 pp. $24.95 Oxford University Press Think back to Summer 2012. Gotye ached and crooned about somebody he used to know; LMFAO wiggled and party-rocked till the tide turned; Carly Rae Jepsen just...

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  Rice Professor Wins the Pulitzer Prize For History

  May 5 at 8:03 a.m.

  Caleb McDaniel, a Rice University history professor, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book about Henrietta Wood, a woman who was enslaved twice and eventually sued her captor and won the largest financial settlement known in restitution for slavery.  In Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True...

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  Book Details Long Delayed Justice for Soldiers of the "Brownsville Incident"

  April 21 at 4 a.m.

  The Brownsville Texas Incident of 1906: The True and Tragic Story of a Black Battalion’s Wrongful Disgrace and Ultimate Redemption By Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) William Baker 481 pp. $30 Red Engine Press It was one of the most famous (and infamous) incidents in the racial and military history of Texas...

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  Was 1978 the Most Diverse Year in Music History?

  April 7 at 4 a.m.

  On Record – Vol. 1: 1978 – Images, Interviews, and Insights from the Year in Music By G. Brown 340 pp. $40 Colorado Music Experience Even the most causal music listener would find it hard to argue that 1978 was not one of – if not the – most diverse...